Ah, Amelia Peabody. There is nobody in the world now like Amelia Peabody. A combination of the high-handed confidence of a Victorian lady who is assured of her rightness, the compassion for underdogs that comes from noblesse oblige, and the intellect of an only daughter and youngest child, raised on classical scholarship. I want Amelia …
Continue reading 365 Books: Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
I've been organizing my eBooks onto shelves by subject, something I had been putting off for a few years. I just realized how many eBooks I have that I bought, read on a plane or something, and forgot about. Somehow it's easier to do that with e- as opposed to p-books. When real books are …
When I was in high school, a bunch of my friends and I went to a summer camp for performing artists on an old army base (the one where An Officer & A Gentleman was filmed). My roommate was this cool chick who I had always gotten along with but, for some reason, we got …
Continue reading 365 Books: A Solitude of Wolverines by Alice Henderson
When you watch TV shows about New York, people are always dropping by. People drop by Jerry's apartment or Rachel's or Bob's or Oscar and Felix's. I don't know how accurate that is - no one drops by my apartment, which is probably a good thing because I don't like to clean. For awhile, we …
Continue reading 365 Books: Not a Creature Was Stirring by Jane Haddam
The interesting thing about Mary Roberts Rinehart's mysteries, to me, is that everyone has so many secrets. Don't get me wrong, all mysteries rely on secrets: what people know but are not saying. In Christie's Crooked House, almost everyone in the family seems to know or suspect who the murderer is: they want it to …
Continue reading 365 Books: The Album by Mary Roberts Rinehart
